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49 J. Church & St. 487 (2007)
Overhauling Islam: Representation, Construction, and Cooption of Moderate Islam in Western Europe

handle is hein.journals/jchs49 and id is 487 raw text is: Overhauling Islam: Representation, Construction, and Cooption of Moderate Islam in Western Europe YVONNE YAZBECK HADDAD AND TYLER GOLSON In the wake of September 11 and the attacks in Amsterdam, London, and Madrid, governments in Western Europe have initiated bold and controversial new policies aimed at the institutionalization of a moderate, Euro-friendly Islam. Official agendas range from relatively benign encouragement of the integration of immigrant populations and discouragement of extremism, to the explicit attempt to impose a state-approved formula for the organization of Islamic communities. Despite widely divergent legacies of church-state rela- tions and seemingly disparate nationaist traditions, European governments appear to be converging on a common solution to their Muslim problem-religion-change and the construction of an acceptable Islam. This essay will highlight the growing trend among European governments to adopt interventionist policies in the religious affairs of Muslims since September 11, focusing on two that are particularly central to the agendas of the respective state: (1) institutionalizing representative Islamic bodies and-empowering designated Muslim interlocutors, and (2) facilitating the construction and maintenance of eYVONNE YAZBECK HADDAD (B.A., Beirut College for Women; M.R.E., Boston University School of Theology; M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D., Hartford Seminary) is professor of History of Islam and Christian Muslim Relations, Georgetown University. She is author of Muslim Women in North America and Not Quite American? The Shaping of Arab and Muslim Identity in the United States. Her articles have appeared in The Middle East Journal, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, American-Arab Affairs, and Christianity and Crisis, among others. Special interests include Islam in the modern world, women in Islam, Islam and pluralism, and Muslims in the West. TYLER COLSON (B.A., Yale University; M.A., Georgetown University) is a fellow, NSEP Arabic Flagship Program, University of Maryland. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Transnational Broadcasting Studies, and the Beirut Daily Star. Special interests include Arab mass media, Syrian politics, Islam on the internet, and Arabic dialectology.

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